Typography may have entered the stratosphere of a new age, but the internal dynamic that propels it remains the same, a fusion of language and the alphabet.
My Typographies
The typography of OASE
Each issue develops different typography and design. The only constant is the size of the publication.
After Typography: Ten Things from Wikipedia
For this assignment you will create a book in Indesign from the content of ten linked Wikipedia entries. Everyone will start from the same place: the Wikipedia entry for typography.
Belief and Reality
Since my “threadbare” and “reactionary” arguments may interest the readers of this magazine, I would like to present them here, without fear that they may “cause mischief”.
Hierarchy and Form
Find the Wikipedia entry for typography. Copy its HTML and link it to a CSS sheet in which you declare a value for every possible property of every HTML selector. Explore CSS as a means for the articulation of typographic hierarchy and the production of new visual forms.
On Typography
It is worth considering once again the situation of typography.
Restrictions
This very short text is from Recollected Work, a retrospective of projects by the Dutch designers Mevis and van Deursen.
Clichés
Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private-press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. (Jan Tschichold, 1930.)
A Scanner Darkly, Lightly
Shades of grey, Emil Ruder
The Purloined Letter
At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was
Writing and Printing
The invention of printing is manifested in works in which the new epoch-making process of using movable type does not show to its full advantage.
Mots et Choses
Editorial F.R. David, Winter 2008